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Ouachita Parish committee approves increases to summer stipends for extracurricular staff
Summary
The Ouachita Parish School Board Finance Committee approved raising per-school summer allotments for high‑school and middle‑school extracurricular staff and increased the monthly per‑employee cap for June and July. The changes aim to respond to growth in summer extracurricular work and will be forwarded to the full board.
At a special call meeting of the Ouachita Parish School Board Finance Committee, members approved two changes to summer pay for extracurricular employees: raising the high‑school allotment from $10,000 to $15,000 per high school and the middle‑school allotment from $4,000 to $6,000 per middle school, and increasing the per‑employee monthly cap from $1,000 to $1,250 for June and July.
Jason, district staff member, presented the recommendation, saying the original allotments (approved in 2011 or 2012) had not kept pace with an expansion in summer activities. "The recommendation is to increase, at the high school level that allotment from $10,000 to $15,000 and at the middle school level to increase that allotment from 4,000 to 6,000," Jason said. He told the committee…
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